Thread: Wrap code in C into C++ one under Linux

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    Wrap code in C into C++ one under Linux

    Hello all!
    my.c
    Code:
    #define EXPORT __attribute__((visibility("default")))
    EXPORT int foo(void);
    int foo(void)
    {
        extern int _new();
        return _new();
    }
    my.cpp
    Code:
    extern "C" {
    #define EXPORT __attribute__((visibility("default")))        
            EXPORT int foocpp(void)
            {
                extern int foo();
                return foo();
            }
    }
    Then
    g++ -shared -fpic -o lib.so my.cpp my.c asm.s
    where asm.s contains _new.
    I want to call my foocpp using PInvoke from C#:
    Code:
    using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
    class Program{
    [DllImport("lib.so")] public static extern int foocpp ();
     static void Main(string[] args)
            {
                int code = foocpp();
    System.Console.WriteLine(code);
    }
    }
    But on start using
    dotnet run
    I have an error
    symbol lookup error: undefined symbol: foo
    Please, help.

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    I think that by invoking g++ to compile my.c, my.c is treated as C++ source rather than C source, so name mangling etc comes into effect without extern "C":
    Quote Originally Posted by gcc 9.3 manual
    g++ is a program that calls GCC and automatically specifies linking against the C++ library. It treats ‘.c’, ‘.h’ and ‘.i’ files as C++ source files instead of C source files unless -x is used.
    (Compiling C++ Programs)
    Quote Originally Posted by Bjarne Stroustrup (2000-10-14)
    I get maybe two dozen requests for help with some sort of programming or design problem every day. Most have more sense than to send me hundreds of lines of code. If they do, I ask them to find the smallest example that exhibits the problem and send me that. Mostly, they then find the error themselves. "Finding the smallest program that demonstrates the error" is a powerful debugging tool.
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